Road-use data helps P.E.I. plan infrastructure changes years in advance | CBC News Being stuck in traffic can be a frustrating experience that leaves drivers wondering whether there have always been this many cars on the road. On P.E.I., the answer to that question is no.

"You have to design and build roads for 10,000 cars because that's what you have," PEI's director of capital projects, Steve Yeo, said. "You have to design and build roads for 10,000 cars because that's what you have."

👋 Because roads are too good for transit buses? or not good enough for transit ?

"The rebate program came at a cost of $670,000 — money MacEwen will have to cut from elsewhere in the Department of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy if the incentive program continues beyond the end of this month."
🤔
How about less designing and building roads and investing in transit?👇

"Programs' elimination 'hit a nerve with Islanders,' says finance minister." 🎯
#pei #peipoli
🧵

Motor vehicle with overly bright headlights (night image)

🇨🇦 Petition e-7159 on "increased glare from modern vehicle headlights"
.
.
"We call upon the Government of Canada to:
4. Take concrete measures to reduce glare and improve road safety for the entire population."
.
.
⏳ Open until June 16.
To sign --> www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

La honte On excuse les puissants, mais on punit les vulnérables.

Loi sur la laïcité: « Encore une fois, ce sont des femmes qui paient le prix de cette croisade morale. Des éducatrices, des techniciennes, des surveillantes et des préposées compétentes. »

#polqc #polcan #qcpoli #cdnpoli

Chute abrupte d’oxygène dans les eaux du Saint-Laurent La baisse sans précédent constatée cette année pourrait menacer directement la vie marine dans l’estuaire.

« Ça ne va pas s’améliorer. Ça va se poursuivre, parce que ça fait partie d’un mouvement plus global de hausse des températures des eaux océaniques. »
-- Émilien Pelletier

As the Arctic coastline erodes, a new report says the North needs to do more to protect it | CBC News A recent report says Canada is not doing enough to protect its shorelines, and despite sharing a quickly eroding Arctic coastline, the three territories do not have dedicated shoreline management plan...

From November 2025.
.
.
.
#shorelines #erosion #climatechange #arctic #cdnpoli

This northern Yukon island shows how thawing permafrost is transforming the Arctic | CBC News Thawing permafrost on a small island off the Yukon’s north coast is shedding light on how climate change could dramatically affect the Arctic landscape in years to come.

Eye-opening images!
#permafrost #climatechange #Yukon #arctic #cdnpoli

Must read!
Lloyd Alter teaches sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University 🇨🇦, author of "Living the 1.5 degree Lifestyle" and “The Story of Upfront Carbon.”
#cars #cows #climatechange #landplanning #biosphere

P.E.I. kids won't receive books from Dolly Parton's Imagination Library after budget cut | CBC News A program that provided Prince Edward Island children with free books in the mail every month is ending as part of cuts in the province's 2026-27 operational budget.

"Four in seven Island adults struggle with literacy, Liberal MLA and Opposition education critic Carolyn Simspson said, and the program promoted reading at home."

#peipoli #cdnpoli #budget #budget #literacy #reading

Some bike shop owners worried they'll lose customers after P.E.I. slashes incentive | CBC News Prince Edward Islanders will no longer get money back on their purchase of bicycles and e-bikes after the province’s latest operating budget eliminated a rebate program.

Along with the bike rebates, some other programs that were cut include:

E-bike Rebate Program.

Electric Vehicle Incentive Program.

Energy Efficient Equipment Rebate.

Instant Energy Savings Rebates.

#peipoli #cdnpoli #budget #netzero2040 #energyefficiency

Our political panel breaks down the P.E.I. budget and a conflict of interest controversy It was a busy week in the P.E.I. Legislature, including the tabling of the government’s operational budget and questions about cabinet minister Sidney MacEwen’s fishing licence. CBC News: Compass host...

PEI Budget 🧵
#peipoli #budget #cdnpoli

My waking thought this morning was why in the world are we still subsiding fossil fuel companies & why on earth aren't we windfall-taxing the absolute crap out of them? This world is so messed up and there's no planet B. Our leaders are failing us all now & for generations to come #ClimateActionNow

P.E.I. finance minister not committed to Sunshine List, will publish salary ranges Jill Burridge said her department doesn't intend to disclose the names and salaries of high-earning or senior civil servants.

"Paul MacNeill, publisher of the Eastern Graphic newspaper and a regular columnist, said P.E.I. is one of the most secretive provinces in the country when it comes to public salaries, which represent the province’s biggest budgetary expenditure each year."
#PEI #peipoli #cdnpoli

Motion to have ambulance fees for organ donors waived passes legislature unanimously | CBC News On Dec. 10, 2023, Jodi Hebert found her son Kodiak unresponsive in his bedroom. He was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, but died the next day at age 21. Six weeks later, his fa...

"Six weeks after losing Kodiak, his family received a bill in the mail for his ambulance transportation to the hospital.
While the $150 was not an issue for her family, Jodi felt that there are many Islanders who may not be able to pay such a fee, especially after the expenses of a funeral."
#PEI

10/10. No notes.

"Most of the projects are solar — 12 of 14 — and all have an Indigenous partnership of 50 per cent or more. Three projects lead the pack in terms of energy output, tying at 200 MW each."
#solar #wind #renewables #cleanenergy

Large poster in the Brompton facility with an image of a Brompton bike and the tagline “refuel cities”, designed like a sign at a gas station with the prices of unleaded, super, and diesel fuel all really high, and the cost of cycling and coffee both marked as free.

Meanwhile, at the @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social facility…

Cartoon showing a winners podium with a banner behind it that reads: 'War in Iran - Award ceremony'. The Grim Reaper stands on top in 1st place, while Trump and Mojtaba Khamenei stand on either side him, lower, as runners-up. Trump is making a loser sign with his hand towards Khamenei, while Khamenei has both his hands raised making the 'v' of victory. Both Trump and Khamenei have painted a '1' on their place on the winners podium, using red paint (or blood), which has also stained their hands. In the background we see the devastation of war.

Winners. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.

#Iran #Trump #MojtabaKhamenei #GrimReaper

The 10 minutes that set Lebanon ablaze A string of rapid Israeli attacks killed hundreds of people in one of the deadliest episodes in the country’s history

Savagery @rayajalabi.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/5501...

💥🇭🇺With 95% of votes counted, Hungary’s map shows the opposition Tisza party crushing Fidesz 94–12 in constituencies. Péter Magyar has secured a 2/3 majority, asked President Tamás Sulyok and other Orbán loyalists to resign immediately, and announced his first visit to Warsaw.

💯 ☹️

Light pollution has brightened Earth by 16% since 2014, satellites find Artificial lights at night brightened up planet Earth by 16% between 2014 and 2022, a new study using satellite images has revealed. But some areas, including those struck by war and natural disasters, or those in countries with effective light pollution and energy-saving policies in place, are bucking the trend. From space, Earth at night is a magnificent sight — a darkened sphere lined and dotted by blueish and golden lights revealing outlines of countries and continents. It has not always looked like that. For our ancestors, that twinkling ball would have been completely dark. Artificial lights at night reveal the progress of civilization as new settlements spring up and electric grids expand, bringing the comforts of modern life. But constant artificial light has also become a problem, affecting sleep quality, disrupting plant and animal biorhythms and obstructing our views of the cosmos. The new study, by an international team of researchers. found that Earth is getting brighter overall. But there are caveats: In many areas, lights have actually been extinguished by war and natural disasters, or dimmed by effective energy-saving policies. In fact, Zhe Zhu, the study's lead author, said that, despite the overall brightening visible in the satellite...

Light pollution has brightened Earth by 16% since 2014, satellites find
->Space | More on "Light pollution brightening Earth satellites" at BigEarthData.ai | #LightPollution #Earth

If we don't change the direction we are headed,
we will end up where we are going.

— Chinese proverb

A daily occurrence in various parts of Charlottetown 👇

Reminder that Carney is cutting funding to Environment and Climate Change Canada by 45%.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Godin sur l'actualité du 10 avril 2026 👉 bit.ly/4cmgKvz

This 👇 ... for Charlottetown 😍

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf Rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth has offered scientists a window into the behaviour of these large, elusive mammals.

Rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth gives scientists new insight into the behaviour of these elusive giants.
Watch here: www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/03/27/sc...